Sustainability and Electric Vehicles

Where EVs are actually available

Electric sedans and SUVs are offered in the metros where charging infrastructure supports a full working day: California, the Pacific Northwest, Denver, Austin, the Northeast Corridor and South Florida. In those markets an EV can be specified on a corporate account as the default class.

Elsewhere the honest position is that a chauffeur cannot complete a twelve-hour duty cycle with long positioning legs on the charging that exists today, and we will say so rather than accept the booking and substitute a petrol vehicle on the morning.

Reporting

Corporate accounts can receive trip-level records showing vehicle class and distance, which is what a sustainability team needs to apply its own emissions factors. We do not publish a headline carbon figure of our own, because a number calculated from mixed affiliate fleets across fifty states would be a marketing claim rather than a measurement.

The things that actually reduce emissions here

• Consolidating four separate transfers into one hourly as-directed block, which removes three positioning legs
• Sizing the vehicle to the passengers and luggage rather than to the impression
• Shuttle loops instead of individual transfers for groups over about eight
• Accurate pickup timing, which removes idling at kerbs and in cell lots
• Choosing the correct airport, which is frequently a sixty-mile difference in each direction

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